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Why Pessimism Sounds Smart
The futurists of the world struggle to convey positive and optimistic scenarios that encourage humane action.
Medium • Welcome to Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight
Old attitudes and ideas simply aren’t adequate to help us navigate what lies ahead. And pervasive gloom about the future risks being self-fulfilling.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Progress is good. As Steven Pinker has argued, most things are getting better over time. We are richer, healthier, safer, and better-educated than our ancestors. Although redistribution and social changes can make things better or worse around the edges, most of our current fortunate position comes from simple economic growth.
Scott Alexander • Notes From The Progress Studies Conference
